Analysis Of The Movie Do The Right Thing

Do the right thing
Spike Lee was the director and producer of the 1989 movie “Do the right thing”. Do the right thing is a movie about a boy name Mookie (Spike Lee) that lives in a black and Puerto Rican neighborhood in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn with his sister name Jade. He works at Sal’s Famous Pizzeria, which is owned by an Italian-American owner who has owned it for 25 years, name Salvatore “Sal” Frangione. Sal has two son, Pino and Vito, and his oldest son known as Pino is a racist and detests the place likes a sickness” and holds many racial scorn for all the blacks in that community. Do the right thing is an ordinary film that pro different cultural meaning behind it and deals with mostly with racism between Blacks and other groups;

It all started when in Sal’s Pizzeria and he showed how confused he is about the size of the pizza slice he received for the price which was $1.50. After having a quarrel he sit down and he begin to notice how there were no black celebrities on the Wall of Fame. Sal tells him that how it’s his place and he owned it for 25 years and he can put whoever he wants on the wall. Buggin’ out rebuttal by stating that nobody Italian-American eat at his Pizzeria and that its only black people that comes and buy from the restaurant and how he make his money off of black folks and wants black people up on the wall. Buggin’out decided to tell his people to boycott the pizzeria. He later spent the whole day trying to get people to help him boycott Sal’s Pizzeria, but doesn’t get any success. At first Mookie wasn’t agreeing with Buggin’ Out boycott until Pino utters on why “niggers are so stupid”. Mookie and Pino began to have a conversation on Pino favorite celebrities (who were black) and questions him why he is racist. Pino tries to explain how his favorite celebrities are “beyond black” and they’re not niggers. Pino statement “beyond black” has a certain degree of ambiguity. Just because a black person is not successful doesn’t make them “beyond black”. Even if you are unsuccessful, educated or even uneducated, a person’s social status does not

Radio Raheem is a towering young black man who always carries around a huge boom box blasting only “Fight the Power” by Public Enemy. Radio Raheem has difficulty coinciding with other people that don’t feel the same way as him. He tries to make a difference and his obsession with his boom box it the only thing strong enough to cause him frim getting black people to notice a problem. At nightfall, Buggin’ Out and Smiley meets with Radio Raheem. He feels inferior to the successful non-blacks in the community but he expresses himself much more loudly. They discuss with each other about how they are annoyed with Sal and plan to boycott his pizzeria. When they enter the pizzeria, Radio Raheem had his music blast and they had a big argument with Sal, who ended up smashing Raheem’s boom box with his baseball bat. Radio Rahhem gets angry and starts fighting him and almost strangling Sal to death. When the police arrive Officer Gary Long chokes Radio Raheem to death with a nightstick. After Radio Raheem has been killed by the police because their response to a street fight between Sal and Raheem, this scene represents how disbelief turns to outrages. People begin to shout the names of other victims of police violence and viewers like myself begin to realize that this may not have been a freak accident and has been happening repeatedly in our society today. The